President Trump pulled South African President Cyril Ramaphosa into an extended and at times tense debate about claims of “genocide” against white farmers in South Africa, playing a video in the Oval Office to support his allegations.

The otherwise cordial meeting began to devolve after a reporter asked Trump what it would take to convince him there is no genocide targeting white farmers, like the president and other allies have claimed. Ramaphosa jumped in to say it would take Trump listening to the voices and perspectives of native South Africans, including some who joined him on the U.S. trip.

Trump then motioned for an aide to queue up a video, a sign he and his team were prepared to defend their controversial claims. The roughly four-minute video, which the White House later shared on the social platform X, included clips of South Africans saying “kill the farmer” and chanting about shooting Afrikaners.

“This is very bad. These are burial sites right here … over a thousand of white farmers and those cars are lined up to pay love on Sunday morning, each one of those white things you see are a cross. There’s approximately a thousand of them, they’re all white farmers,” Trump said during a part of the video.

“I’d like to know where........

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